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United States Patcf INSIDE LINING SHEET FOR FREIGHT CAR James S. Swann, Homewood, Ill., assignor to Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Delaware f Application March 11, 1954, Serial No. 415,577

, 3 Claims. (Cl. 105-423) This invention relates to the construction of railway house cars, and has particular reference to a structure which, when attached to the car side and end plates and car parts, materially strengthens said plates and would thereby permit a reduction in the thickness thereof without the sacrifice of overall strength, which is a principal object of the invention.

More specifically the invention comprises a lining sheet, for the upper margin of the side and end walls of the car, which lining cooperates with the side and end plates in forming a support for the roof sheets of the car. Such structure adds considerable rigidity to the upper portion of the car superstructure, another important object of the invention.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description of the invention.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing forming part of this application and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts.

Fig. l is a side elevation of the upper part of a fragmental portion of the inside of a railway house car showing my invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2, Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3, Fig. l.

Fig. 4 is a section similar to Fig. 3 showing a modied form of the invention.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a section on line 6 6, Fig. l.

Fig. 7 is a section on line 7 7, Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing another modified form of the invention.

In the drawings, only approximately one-half of the upper portion of one side of the car is shown, from one door post to an end of the car, it being understood that the other half of the car will be complemental thereto and that the other side of the car will be of like construction.

In said drawings the numeral 10 indicates a side plate of the car, and in the modifications shown in Figs. l to 3 and Figs. 4 and 5 is a Z-bar having a horizontal web 11, an inner upstanding ange 12 and an outer depending flange 13. Spaced horizontally of the car wall is a W-section corner post 14, Z-section side posts 15, and a channel shaped door post 16, all extending vertically from the under surface of web 11 downwardly to the side sill of the car, shown in Fig. 3; all of common construction.

The outer side sheathing of the car which is shown at 17, is secured to the outer ange of the side posts and also along its lower margin to the side sill and along its upper margin to and underlapping ange 13 of the side plate. To the inside ange of the side posts l5 is ordinarily applied a wooden lining 18 which extends from floor to ceiling of the car.

In the present construction, however, this wooden lining 18 extends from the oor of the car upwardly and terminates some distance below the car side plate in a beveled or inclined plane, as clearly shown in Figs. 3, 4

fr' j ICCr to the ange 12 'of the side plate by a row of rivets 22.

The upper marginot lining 20 extends above ange 12 and is bent outwardly' and slightly downwardly, as at 23,

so as to be in plane` with a surface'of the car roof, and

form a support for'the eaves of the roof sheets of the car. The body portion of this metal lining is provided with one or mo'rehorizontally disposed corrugations 24 pressed from the plane of the sheet in a direction oppo= site tothat of the portion 23, and which corrugation adds material stilness to said lining 20.

In Fig. 3 the body portion of the lining 20 is riveted, I

as at 25,y to the inner flanges of the side posts, whereas in Fig. 4 thebody portion is provided with spaced vertically elongated holes 26,' opposite said inner anges of the side posts, 'through which said body portionis plug welded to -isaidinnerlianges These metal liners could extend in one piece continuously from a door post to the corner posts of the car, but, for practical purposes, they are provided in two sec tions to extend from each door post to a car corner post, overlapping slightly approximately midway of said distance over a side post. The overlapping margin of one section is offset the thickness of the material and for about the width of the adjacent flange ofthe side posts, so that both margins may be riveted thereto, as shown at 27 in Figs. l and 7.

The vertical edge of each liner at the door post is welded to the inner flange of the channel door post, as at 28, and the ends of the corrugations 24 taper and merge into the plane of the liner, a-s clearly shown in Fig. 6, so as to present a ilat margin for edge welding to said inner flange.

In Fig. 8 a modified form of side plate 25 is shown, which is of Z-secti-on, having an inclined web 26, a downturned ange 27, overlapping the upper margin of the side sheathing 28, an upturned flange 29, and an outturned flange 30 extending in the plane of the roof.

The wood lining 31 in this modication is the same as the lining 18, and the lower edge 32 of the metal lining 33 is inclined so as to rest upon the inclined upper edge of the wood lining. The body portion of the metal lining is provided with one or more horizontal corrugations 34, and these corrugations in all modifications occur within the vertical bounding planes of the wood lining. In the latter modification, however, the portion above the corrugations 34 is bent outwardly and then vertically, as at 35, in substantially the same plane as the inner plane of the wood lining 31. This portion 35 abuts flatwise against ange 29 and is secured thereto in any desired manner, such as by a row of rivets 36. The upper margin of portion 35 is bent outwardly, as at 37, and abuts flatwise the llange 30 so that both portions 30 and 37 support the eaves end of the root` when applied thereto. Portions 30 and 37 are secured together by the same fastening means that secures the roof sheets thereto.

In both modifications the metal lining 20 would not extend down from the ceiling far enough to ordinarily come in contact with grain loads, but it will, nevertheless, be noted that the liange 21 engages the upper beveled edge of the non-metallic lining 18 in a grain-tight manner so that even if a grain load would shift, due to service movements of the car, no grain would be allowed to get behind the lining through the joint between anges 21 and beveled edge of the non-metallic lining.

I claim:

l. A composite side wall structure for railway house cars comprising a side plate having an upstanding inner flange, a non-metallic lower lining portion, the upper edge of which is beveled, a metallic upper lining portion, the lower margin of which is inclined correspondingly to the bevel of and rests upon the upper edge of the lower portion, the upper margin of which extendsabove the side plate and is provided with a flange extending in' a plane with and supporting the car roof, and the intermediate portion of which is provided with a corrugation pressed from the plane of said intermediate portion.

2. A composite side wall structure for railway house cars including spaced side posts having inner and outer flanges, a side plate having an upstanding inner flange and a depending outer flange secured to the outer llanges of the side posts, a metallic portion, the lower margin of said metallic portion provided with a lateral llange extending in one direction, the upper margin of said metallic portion provided with a lateral llange above the side plate and extending in the opposite direction, said last mentioned ilange occurring in the plane of and adapted to support the eaves ends of car roof sheets.

3. A composite -side wall structure for railway house cars comprising a side plate having an upstanding inner ilange and a depending outer llange, spaced side posts each having inner and outer tlanges, means securing said depending llange and said outer ilanges together, a nonmetallic lower lining structure, having a beveled upper edge, and secured to the inner ilanges of said posts, and a metallic upper lining structure, secured to the inner ilanges of the side posts, and having a lower edge inclined correspondingly to the bevel of and resting upon the upper edge of the non-metallic lining structure, and said metallic lining structure having an upper margin lapping the upstanding side plate flange and secured thereto, said upper margin extending above said upstanding inner ilange and terminating in a lateral flange to support the car roof.

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